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23/04/2013

Deka resells property in Tokyo

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The mixed office (3,800 square metres), commercial (1,000 square metres) and housing (400 square metres) building TK Shin-bashi in Tokyo, which was purchased in 2004 for the Deka S-Property N°1 fund, has been resold for EUR44m to a Japanese REIT. Deka Immobilien states that it earned a capital gain on the transaction.
23/04/2013

AUM at Brooks Macdonald up 7.6% in Q1

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The wealth management firm Brooks Macdonald reported growth in its assets under management of 7.6% n first quarter, to GBP4.97bn, compared with GBP4.62bn as of the end of December 2012, according to an interim report published by the group. Assets advised fell 1.4% to GBP352m.Real estate activities, a part of Braemar Estates, saw an increase in their assets under administration of nearly 12%, and topped GBP1bn, at GBP1.004bn, compared with GBP897m at the end of fourth quarter 2012.
23/04/2013

Assets under management at Brooks Maconald up 7.6% in first quarter

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The wealth management firm Brooks Macdonald reported growth in its assets under management of 7.6% n first quarter, to GBP4.97bn, compared with GBP4.62bn as of the end of December 2012, according to an interim report published by the group. Assets advised fell 1.4% to GBP352m. Real estate activities, a part of Braemar Estates, saw an increase in their assets under administration of nearly 12%, and topped GBP1bn, at GBP1.004bn, compared with GBP897m at the end of fourth quarter 2012.
23/04/2013

OPCI market up 22% in 2012

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to the annual Philinx-IETF survey undertaken in first quarter, the OPCI fund market represented EUR28bn in gross assets as of the end of 2012, an increase of 22% compared with 2011, and a new record. The survey finds that the OPCI market continues to be dominated by RFA OPCIs, “either as dedicated funds or club deals, which represent EUR27bn in gross assets.” These figures may be compared with the levels of gross assets held by SIICs as of the end of 2012, totalling about EUR85bn, as both are essentially institutional investment vehicles. In the past five years, RFA OPCIs have accounted for most growth in indirect ownership of real estate by institutional investors. IEIF states that this strong growth is due to the dynamism of the 20 asset management firms that are particularly active in the area of these regulated institutional vehicles, including collective management entities such as Amundi Immobilier and La Française REM, asset management firms related to major insurance companies, such as Groupe Crédit Agricole, Groupe Allianz, and pure players such as Viveris REIM. The survey also finds growth in asset management firms affiliated to publicly-traded realty firms such as Foncières des régions and Icade. The year 2012 saw rapid growth for retail OPCIs, whose capitalisation increased by EUR248m, to EUR854m as of the end of the year, in a trend supported by the launch of the Selectiv’immo fund from Axa REIM and the OPCIMMO from Amundi Immobilier. IEIF states that their size remains modest compared with SCPI vehicles, whose capitalisation totalled EUR27bn as of the end of 2012, and which saw net inflows of EUR2.50bn in 2012.
23/04/2013

FTT may cost US MMFs up to USD35bn

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The financial transaction tax proposed by 11 euro zone countries may cost US money market funds up to USD11bn, according to the first quantitative analysis of the impact of this tax on the US fund sector, undertaken by ICI Global.According to the study, the FFT may lead to the disappearance of transactions completed as part of hedged repurchase agreements between US money market funds and French and German banks. As of the end of 2012, these transactions represented about USD1.39bn.On the basis of a renewal of repurchase agreements every seven years, the cost would be at leat USD7bn on the basis of assets of USD139bn. In the event of one-day maturity, the FFT would represent a cost on the order of USD35bn.In this context, Luxembourg on 22 April announced, through its finance minister, Eric Frieden, that it would be supporting the United Kingdom’s appeal against the financial transaction tax.“We are very understanding of the position of the United Kingdom … We will certainly support the case which has been brought before the European Court of Justice,” Frieden said at a banking conference in the City of London, according to reports by the news agency Reuters.
23/04/2013

Spanish fund selectors prefer Carmignac, JPMAM and Fidelity

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Bestinver, which held fourteenth place in the 2012 Fund Brand report, ranks tenth in the Fund Brand 2013 rankings. It is the only Spanish firm among the top ten preferred firms for Spanish fund pickers, the top three of which have held their positions, in order: Carmignac, JPMorgan Asset Management and Fidelity, Funds People reports.Pimco makes its first appearance in the rankings, in fourth place, replacing Franklin Templeton, which is in fifth place, ahead of BlackRock, which has also lost one place. However, M&G Investments, in seventh place, has gained six places from the 2012 rankings. The British firm finishes ahead fo Amundi and Deutsche AWM.The next ten, after Bestinver, are Swiss & Global AM, Invesco, Schroders, Pictet, BNY Mellon, BNP Paribas IP, Goldman Sachs AM, Robeco, Pioneer and Morgan Stanley.
23/04/2013

New lawsuit against Deutsche Bank

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }P.western { font-family: «Times New Roman»,serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.cjk { font-family: «WenQuanYi Micro Hei"; font-size: 12pt; }P.ctl { font-family: «Lohit Hindi"; font-size: 12pt; } On Monday, proceedings will begin in London in a lawsuit filed by Alexander Vik against Deutsche Bank, Handelsblatt reports. Vik is seeking USD2.5bn in damages and interest from the German bank, which he claims liquidated the positions of the Sebastian Holdings fund in 2008, as it was unable to pay USD530m in additional collateral.The bank claims that the lawsuit is baseless, and has filed a countersuit for USD246m in damage claim for abusive rupture of contract.
23/04/2013

British regulator issues license for March Gestión de Fondos

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } According to Investment Europe, the British regulator has issued the Spanish firm March Gestión de Fondos (MFG, EUR2.2bn) a license to sell shares denominated in pounds sterling in its flagship funds Vini Catena (EUR100m), Family Business and Torrenova (EUR700m) in the United Kingdom.For the moment, these products will be offered to wealth managers and the major IFA distributors.RDR-compliante shares will be launched subsequently.
23/04/2013

WisdomTree preparing German equity ETF hedged for currency risks

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Index Universe reports that WisdomTree has submitted a new license application to the SEC (following the one of July 2011) for the WisdomTree Germany Hedged Equity Fund, an ETF focused on German equities, which replicates an in-house index weighted by dividends.In order to be included in the index, shares are required to have been issued by a company listed in Germany, but which realises less than 80% of its earnings in Germany. They are also required to have paid at least USD5m in cash dividends in the previous fiscal year, and must have a market capitalisation of over USD1bn.In the index, the shares are weighted according to their cash dividends, with the ones that distribute the highest dividends accorded a greater weight. The allocation limit is set at 25% of the portfolio per sector.
23/04/2013

Fitch updates criteria and ratings scale for AMCs

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Fitch Ratings on 22 April published an update to its criteria and ratings scale for asset management firms.Among the modifications made by the agency are a new five-point descriptive sale, new ratings definitions which explicitly label managers according to the standards practised by institutional investors, with more explicit ratings attributes for each of 30 ratings factors, and an introduction of ratings outlooks, which indicate the direction that a rating may take over a two-year period.The ratings resulting from these modifications will be communicated separately at a later date, Fitch Ratings says, but it does not expect major changes for the 55 asset management firms it rates.
23/04/2013

Assénagon launches fund of solid European equities

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); }P.western { font-family: «Times New Roman»,serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.cjk { font-family: «WenQuanYi Micro Hei"; font-size: 12pt; }P.ctl { font-family: «Lohit Hindi"; font-size: 12pt; } The German firm Assénagon Asset Management on 3 April created a Luxembourg-registered fund which offers institutional investors a source of regular income from investment in European equities that pay high dividends, without assuming the entirety of share price risks. The product is the Assénagon Substanz Europa, which aims to distribute 4.5% per year in dividends. The fund is licensed for sale in Luxembourg, Germany and Austria.The portfolio will invest in 50 shares, out of a universe that includes 600. These equities will be equally weighted, and the portfolio will be hedged on an ongoing basis with the use of puts and out-of-the-money calls.CharacteristicsName: Assénagon Substanz EuropaISIN code: LU0819201681Front-end fee: 3%Management commission: 1.5%
23/04/2013

Henderson Global Investors recruits for European small cap equity team

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Henderson Global Investors on 22 April announced that it has appointed Rory Stokes, who joined the European Equity team at the end of March 2013. Stokes comes as an addition to the Small & Mid Cap team, as a small cap equity analyst. He will be based in London, and will report to Ollie Beckett, manager of the Henderson Horizon Pan European Smaller Companies and Henderson Gartmore Pan European Smaller Companies funds. Overall, the European small cap equity team led by Beckett has nearly EUR1bn in assets under management as of 30 March 2013. Stokes has more than 12 years of professional experience in investment. He began his career in 2001 as an analyst at Holt and Credit Suisse, and then joined Liberum Capital in 2007 as a vendor of European small and midcaps.
23/04/2013

RWC recruits from Marathon AM

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } Louise Keeling, who spent six years at Marathon Asset Management as a global equity manager, has been recruited by RWC Partners to set up a global equity unit, Citywire reports.RWC states that Keeling uses a stock-picking approach (bottom-up), and that a number of recruitments for Keeling’s team will be announced in the near future.
23/04/2013

Ameriprise in the running to acquire SWIP

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The parent company of Threadneedle Investments, Ameriprise, is reportedly in the running to potentially take over Scottish Widows Investment Partenership (SWIP), the asset management unit of Lloyds Banking Group, the Sunday Times reports. Last week, the British group announced that it was studying the possibility of selling its asset management activities (Newsmanagers of 22 April), and that it had asked Deutsche Bank to assist it with that process. Aberdeen Asset Management, perceived as a potential buyer, has claimed, in the person of its CEO Martin Gilbert, that it is not interested in such an operation, whose risks outweigh the advantages, from his point of view. Assets under management at SWIP total about GBP117bn.
23/04/2013

RBC Investor & Treasury wins UCITS mandate

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } RBC Investor & Treasuries Services, an affiliate of the Royal Bank of Canada, on 22 April announced that it has won a UCITS mandate from Polen Capital Management, primarily to provide fund custody and administration services and services to shareholders. Assets under custody at RBC Investor & Treasury Services total about USD2.9trn.
23/04/2013

UBP and Guggenheim launch HF platform

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } As part of its alternative management development strategy, Union Bancaire Privée (UBP), which one year ago acquired the French firm Nexar, on 22 April announced that it has selected Guggenheim Fund Solutions (GFS) as a partner to develop a single platform which will allow client sto access a selection of dynamic and high-potential hedge fund managers, as well as a new-generation IT system which meets the requirements of investors for transparency, governance and reduction of structural risks.More specifically, UBP uses its strong experience in hedge fund investment to identify, select and track the best managers operating on the GFS managed account platform. At this time, 14 accounts are already active on the new fund platform; the bank is aiming for 30 by the end of 2013.
23/04/2013

Martin Currie selects Kinetic as a provider in Luxembourg

P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } The Luxembourg Sicav Martin Currie Global Funds (USD500m), an affiliate of the Scottish firm Martin Currie, has selected Kinetic Partners as a provider of management company services, or ManCo services, for its range of UCITS-compliant funds, Funds Europe reports.
23/04/2013

Rendement en baisse pour l’émission espagnole

Le Trésor espagnol a placé mardi pour 3,01 milliards d’euros de bons à trois et neuf mois, deux opérations marquées par une baisse du rendement, tombés à un plus bas depuis au moins 2009 dans un contexte d’anticipation de baisse des taux d’intérêt de la Banque centrale européenne (BCE). Madrid avait prévu d'émettre entre deux et trois milliards d’euros de titres de dette à court terme. Pour le trois mois, Madrid a émis 0,86 milliard d’euros, le rendement revenant de 0,285% à 0,120%. Le Trésor espagnol a également émis pour 2,16 milliards d’euros de bons à neuf mois, avec un rendement en baisse à 0,787% contre 1,007%.
23/04/2013

La zone euro reste ancrée dans la récession

La contraction du secteur privé de la zone euro ne s’est pas aggravée en avril, le secteur des services connaissant même un léger mieux, mais cela ne veut pas dire pour autant que la fin de la récession est en vue. Selon les premières estimations de l’enquête mensuelle de Markit, l’indice des services est remonté à 46,6 en avril, contre 46,4 en mars. Mais le secteur privé allemand s’est, contre toute attente, contracté pour la première fois en cinq mois en avril, à 48,8 contre 50,6 en mars, ce qui pourrait vouloir dire que la première économie de la zone euro enregistrera une baisse de son produit intérieur brut (PIB) au deuxième trimestre après une hausse attendue au premier. En France, l’activité dans le secteur privé s’est contractée à un rythme moins prononcé que prévu en avril grâce à une amélioration dans le secteur des services. L’indice PMI composite flash, qui combine l’industrie et les services, est remonté à 44,2 après avoir touché en mars un plus bas de quatre ans à 41,9. Selon les données de l’Insee, l’environnement économique s’est dégradé au mois d’avril en France, faisant peser le risque d’une récession qui se prolongerait sur le deuxième trimestre. L’indicateur du climat des affaires, calculé d’après une enquête menée auprès des chefs d’entreprise, s’est ainsi replié de deux points pour retomber à 84, son plus bas niveau depuis août 2009. Pour les services, l’indicateur s’inscrit à 83, contre 84 en mars, et accuse un recul de sept points depuis janvier.
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23/04/2013

Giorgio Napolitano cherche une issue à la crise en Italie

Le président italien a prêté serment pour un nouveau mandat de sept ans devant les deux chambres du Parlement, mais a menacé de démissionner au cas où les responsables politiques n’assumeraient pas leurs responsabilités sur les réformes à engager. Il a également dénoncé les nombreux échecs et l’irresponsabilité de la classe politique, jugeant le risque d’impasse politique sans précédent en Italie.
23/04/2013

La BCE envisage une baisse des taux

Plusieurs membres du conseil des gouverneurs de la BCE ont souligné hier le ralentissement de l’inflation et les perspectives médiocres de croissance dans la zone euro, ce qui semble indiquer que l’institution envisage de plus en plus sérieusement une baisse de ses taux directeurs. Le conseil des gouverneurs, qui prévoit une nouvelle baisse de l’inflation à 1,3% en 2014, doit se réunir à Bratislava le 2 mai.
23/04/2013

José Manuel Barroso s’en prend aux politiques d’austérité

Le président de la Commission européenne a ajouté sa voix hier à celles retentissant contre les politiques d’austérité budgétaires menées en Europe. «Tout en pensant que cette politique est fondamentalement juste, je pense qu’elle a atteint ses limites», a-t-il estimé lors d’une conférence. Et d’insister sur le «soutien politique et social» dont doit bénéficier toute politique.
23/04/2013

S&P se défend contre la plainte du gouvernement américain

La filiale de McGraw-Hill en appelle à un juge fédéral pour rejeter la plainte du Département de la justice américaine qui lui réclame 5 milliards de dollars en réparation du caractère frauduleux des notations attribuées à des titres adossés à prêts hypothécaires avant la crise. «Si les arguments du gouvernement semblent être exagérés, c’est parce qu’ils le sont», se défend l’agence dans un document envoyé à la Cour.
23/04/2013

William Dudley appelle à une action plus vigoureuse

Le président de la Fed de New York a estimé que les faiblesses de l’économie européenne et les péripéties budgétaires aux Etats-Unis signifient que «davantage doit être fait» pour redresser l’économie mondiale. «La bonne nouvelle est que les pays périphériques ont fait des efforts substantiels pour faire tomber leurs déficits budgétaires structurels», a-t-il ajouté.
23/04/2013

Le déblocage de l'épargne salariale se précise

Une proposition de loi, débattue aujourd’hui en commission parlementaire, élargit à l’intéressement les propositions de François Hollande sur la libération de l'épargne salariale sans pénalité fiscale. Seule concession aux opposants, le Perco et les fonds solidaires en sont exclus.
23/04/2013

La CFTC fustige le Libor

Gary Gensler, président de la Commodity Futures Trading Commission, estime dans le journal que l’utilisation du taux Libor est «insoutenable» et qu’il doit être remplacé au plus vite afin de «restaurer l’intégrité des marchés et promouvoir la stabilité financière». Il ajoute cependant qu’il n’est pas envisageable de mettre le Libor à l'écart sans alternative crédible.

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